CsLinker: an algal pyrenoid assembly protein that binds the RbcL, complements across 800 My of evolution and phase separates plant Rubisco. Very excited to share this work by James Barrett, Jamie Blaza, Michael Plevin, Mark Leake, McCormick Lab. Martin Jonikas doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

We've got an exciting opportunity for a PDRA to join our multi-UK lab Chlamy engineering team! Working with the Edinburgh Genome Foundry, we aim to enhance photosynthesis through a high-throughput plastome engineering strategy. Pls do apply if interested shorturl.at/bnCM8

Working towards your goals one step at a time: An interview with Plant Physiology monitoring editor Alistair McCormick buff.ly/3uQuM6X

Jiawen Chen McCormick Lab

Congratulations Dr Abi Perrin and team for developing this new resource. CyanoTag: Discovery of protein function facilitated by high-throughput endogenous tagging in a photosynthetic prokaryote biorxiv.org/content/10.110… . Explore the data here: morf-db.org/projects/York-… Algae-UK #algae

Interested in sustainable plastic upcycling? An exciting collaborative project has just been advertised to work with Dr Joanna Sadler's lab and us on plastic upcycling using E. coli and cyanobacteria co-cultures. Please apply if you are interested! jobs.ac.uk/job/DFT835/pos…

A great way to end to the week, our starchy saga is now out in PNAS. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Job alert!! Still time to apply for a Lectureship in Plant Science and join a very vibrant and friendly department. Looking forward to receiving your application. Deadline 5/1/24 Global Plant Council Catherine Kidner SRUC Research James Hutton Institute Horticulture Research HortQFLNet

📣 News Alert! Our Institute just got a brand new look! Go to our website and check it out. If you had pages bookmarked, it is possible that some links may not work, so make sure to bookmark our new website ed.ac.uk/biology/plant-…
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It has finally been released!

Thank you to everyone who had a part in making this happen. I gave the talk, but it's the work of all of my colleagues who have done the research that made it possible!

We’re thrilled to share our new pre-print! Here, we outline how to start building a starch sheath around synthetic pyrenoids in plants. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Super happy to have been part of the Festival of Algae 3 oganized by Algae-UK! It is great to be part of such an incredible community, which contribute with research that seeks to change the world, moving towards sustainability, CO2 capture and ⬆️value compound production🌎

Can cyanobacteria revolutionise the biotechnology industry and help with CO2 sequestration? Join us for a synthetic/engineering biology PhD to investigate the potential of a fast-growing cyanobacterium. Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences
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We have one more opportunity for a postdoctoral researcher to join our international team of pyrenoid engineers! Please do apply by the 6 Nov if you are interested. shorturl.at/dyFKV

and (2):
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Here are the PDRA positions separately (1): elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

We have a fantastic opportunity for two (!) postdoctoral researchers to join our plant engineering lab to work in an international team on engineering pyrenoids into plants to enhance yields. Please do apply if you are interested. shorturl.at/cfxH4; shorturl.at/uJLQ0

We’re excited to offer a new RA position - interested in working in a Plant Engineering Biology lab with a commercially relevant fast-growing cyanobacterium? If so, please get in touch and/or apply! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Nice one Angelo and co-authors! Happy to have our new manuscript out on BioRXiV (extra Supps will be up in a few days): Engineering the highly productive cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 11901 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Thanks McCormick Lab The University of Edinburgh for visiting us at the Biozentrum, University of Basel and sharing your group's exciting work engineering algal pyrenoid machinery into plants to improve #CO2 fixation🌍 and feed the world 🌽🌾

And great timing to catch our Botanischer Garten der Universität Basel corpse flower in bloom!🧟🌷

Our preprint is out! We set out to understand what BST4, a putative bestrophin channel, is up to in the pyrenoid tubules of Chlamydomonas...a fab collaboration between the McCormick Lab Luke Mackinder Mark Leake Cornelia Spetea Blatt Lab & Peltier Lab 🤩🧪biorxiv.org/content/10.110…